Wishing you an amazing 2015

A big thank you to everyone who has read my blog this year and also for the lovely comments on my posts and in emails :)

WISHING YOU AN AMAZING 2015, Natasha

Created with the beautiful kit Mistletoe and Wine by DigiFiddle Designs.
Take a look at DigiFiddles Website and the Gallery for lovely layouts and inspiration.

My Scrapbook Diary - My 2014 Adventures

Hello :) Here we are at the end of 2014! It's been a year of unexpected things that is thankfully ending better than it started. At the beginning of 2014 I created an Adventure Wish List of all the things that I wanted to do this year. Now it's time to catch up with how it all went! You can read the full post at E-scape and Scrap: My 2014 Adventures - December, but below are my layouts for this months post :)

Highlights of 2014

My 2014 Adventures

My Scrapbook Diary 2014 Photos

My Scrapbook Diary 2014

The layouts were created with the lovely kit My Diary by AneczkaW.

Scrapbook Diary is at an end for 2014 but is returning in 2015 as a weekly post at the E-scape and Scrap Blog.

If you'd like to catch up with my previous posts you can find them all here: Scrapbook Diary and also all my layouts here: MyScrapbookDiary.

I hope you've enjoyed this years Scrapbook Diary posts and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next year! Bye for now, Natasha :)

Paris Carousel

Hi :) I've been playing with a brilliant free kit from Daisytrail. It's their latest and is called Eccentric Carousel. It is only available for Serif Craft Artist, but you can download the compact version of it for free. I started writing this post yesterday after I posted my page to Daisytrail and this morning when I woke up I found that it had been selected as Featured Project :) It is on the front page of Dasiytrail for today (24th December). Such a lovely surprise :)

Paris Carousel

The photo is one I took of a carousel in Paris, back in 2007. I love it, I think it's because it reminds me of enjoying a ride on the carousel as a child, and when I saw this kit I knew that I had to make a page with it. The Eiffel Tower is within view of the carousel so I had to add this element to the page too!

I love the alpha that comes with this kit, and I used it big and bold! I then positioned the carousel horse so that it is walking along the top of it. I blended paint splats into the background as well as a sparkly swirl and patterned border to add some extra texture to it and layered up elements on top. The bunting I just couldn't resist using and I think it finishes off the page perfectly.

And now after all the talk of Paris I can nothing else but daydream of Paris in Spring!

The First Frost

Hello :) Today I have another layout created with a kit by Captivated Visions called Captivating 2012 | December; it's beautiful and my first layout with it. (I'm not admitting to how long I've had it stashed away for!)

The First Frost

This layout was inspired by a photo of leaves that I took on the first frosty day this year. The weather where I am in England has been generally warm with a few frosty days but not many. How about where you are? I've seen some amazing layouts in the scrapping galleries with photos of several feet of snow! I love it when it snows as long as I don't have to go out anywhere!

The base of this page is two papers blended together and then some elements blended into it. I added some stamps and sparkles and finally the photo and more embellishments. I kept building up until I had the right mix of "stuff"!.

I love it when a page comes together and I think that this one did rather nicely! I've not yet decided on my next project, so I'm off to take a look through my collection of digikits!

Real Life Scraped RSO December 13th

Hi,

Today I posted my last post for Real Life Scrapped :(
I've had a great year and a half being part of the team, but this week Meg made the sad announcement that she is closing the site at the end of the year. However, on a more happy note, I think it's amazing what Meg has achieved with Real Life Scrapped and I have no doubt that her future will be full of many more successes :) So here is the link to my last post: Real Standouts December 13th.

Find a reason to smile...

Hi, I hope that everyone is having a crafty week so far. It would be great to see what people have been up to so if you'd like to share add details in the comments :) Here is my latest layout:

Find a reason to smile...

I am sure that I probably say this a lot, but I've had this gorgeous kit for ages! Anyway I've finally created a scrapbook page with it :) I have printed out papers and elements for some practical projects in the past, which the kit worked brilliantly for, and I have to say that I am also pleased with my latest scrapping creation (I probably say that a lot too!).

I layered up stamps, sparkly bits and elements with three photos taken in my garden, "The Brambles". I processed each of the photos in Snapseed to give them a vintage look so they would fit with the style of the kit. I cut out and then used the roughen tool (pinking style) in Craft Artist on one of the papers, and used the luminosity blend on the doily to make it fade into the page.

My garden is always a reason to smile :)  and if you'd like to catch up with what goes on in it then head on over to my blog: The Brambles, a tale of a garden.

Created with the lovely kit Papillon Place by Captivated Visions.

Real Life Scraped RSO December 6th

Hi, catch up with my yesterday's Real Life Scrapped, Real Standouts post and see some great layouts for December as well as some more autumnal ones.

RSO December 6th